Connected Home News

NDS Launches XTend: Software Enabling Consumers to View Their PC Content on the TV

September 8, 2006 – NDS, provider of technology solutions for digital pay-TV, announced at IBC, the launch of XTend, a new solution that enables content stored on the subscriber’s PC to be transferred seamlessly to the STB over the home network and viewed on the TV.

Pace Introduces 'Whole Home' High Definition Solution at IBC

September 8, 2006 - With the deadline to analogue switch off counting down across Europe and growing demand for high definition (HD) television, Pace Micro Technology, independent developer of digital TV technologies for the global payTV industry, demonstrates how operators can deliver a digital `whole home` HD solution to customers at this year’s IBC.

102 Million Femtocell Access Point Users by 2011

August 25, 2006 - In the near future, femtocells—small cellular base stations designed for use in residential or corporate environments—will be adopted by operators with great enthusiasm. The lure is of greater network efficiency, reduced churn, better in-building wireless coverage, and the abilities to shape subscriber data usage patterns and to build platforms upon which fixed-mobile convergence services can be realized. A new study from ABI Research forecasts that by 2011 there will be 102 million users of femtocell products on 32 million access points worldwide.

Harmonic Redefines Video Delivery with New Solutions at IBC 2006

August 25, 2006 - At IBC 2006, Harmonic Inc. will introduce a range of new video stream processing, encoding and broadband networking products that dramatically improve picture quality and bandwidth utilization. Harmonic will also showcase an end-to-end on-demand solution that includes the newly acquired Entone video networking software for content ingest, real-time distributed content management and high performance video streaming, integrated with Harmonic's compression and edge solutions.

Digital Deck Launches Into Consumer Electronics Channel

August 25, 2006 – Digital Deck™, a provider of technology to manage entertainment throughout the connected home, has announced the company’s entry into the consumer electronics channel with immediate availability of the new Digital Deck Home Media Entertainment System in 20 CompUSA® stores across eight regional territories.

Jazztel Video-over-DSL Service Leverages the Power of Harmonic’s Video Headend Solutions

August 17, 2006 - Harmonic has announced that Jazztel PLC, a telecommunications service provider in Spain, has implemented a comprehensive Harmonic-based digital headend, including the DiviCom® Electra™ 5000 MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) encoder, for its IP-based Jazztelia TV service.

PC World Celebrates 25 Years of the PC by Launching “The Connected Home”

August 17, 2006 - The PC was 25 years old on Saturday 12th August. Research to coincide with this milestone commissioned by PC World, the UK’s chain of computing superstores, points to the growing importance of PCs in the way that we manage our lives.

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